List your film goals for 2019 here. Here are my goals in order of priority. Some I won't be able to finish but I should get 4/6 goals done:

Watch my 8000th film
Finish the 2019 edition of TSPDT and the forum's 1001 list
Have all 10 entries for each year in my top 10 list with a score of 8/10+ for the 1930s and 1940s
Finish the 500<400 list before the next edition comes out
Rewatch the work of Bergman, Ray (Satyajit), and Rohmer that I haven't favourited
Finish next year's DtC
Finish the Locarno and the Golden Lotus awards

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My goal is to work on the 2019 version of my 1000 film list. Since 2016, each year I create a 1000 film list of movies I've never rated and want to see, and it's always fun to work on I use different ways each year to come up with what films are on my list. For 2019, I have ten categories, with 100 films each for seven of those categories, 100 directors (represented by movies I've never rated) for two of the categories, and 100 actors (represented by movies I've never rated) for one of the categories. My exact goal is to watch at least ten from each category.

My goal is to work on the 2019 version of my 1000 film list. Since 2016, each year I create a 1000 film list of movies I've never rated and want to see, and it's always fun to work on I use different ways each year to come up with what films are on my list. For 2019, I have ten categories, with 100 films each for seven of those categories, 100 directors (represented by movies I've never rated) for two of the categories, and 100 actors (represented by movies I've never rated) for one of the categories. My exact goal is to watch at least ten from each category.

That's a really awesome idea, but there's no way I can hit 1000 films in a year anymore. Sounds pretty fun though.

Inspired by Fergenaprido's goal spreadsheet, and maxwelldeux's challenge awards, I am hoping to focus more on challenges and decades/regions next year. I've been watching mostly only newer releases the last few years but want to go back to exploring the past. I also want to read more film books and write more reviews. I wanted to this year but uni drained me, and I need to start improving my writing and consolidating my knowledge better, even if I'm not getting marked for it.. I also want to finish TSPDT and TSZDT.

"I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want." - Stanley Kubrick

Actually make real progress on my Conquer the World challenge. I've been shamefully negligent of this one this past year.

Not very ambitious, but I've realized that I'm not too happy with ambitious goals. They start feeling like chores that must be done rather than something I want to actually achieve. I have other goals that are less specific, iike watch more von Sternberg movies and more Scorsese movies.

Make at least one new film
Read a book
Something with Oliveira and Ruiz
Watch more contemporary films
Watch some long films I've been meaning to watch for ages (is that you Satantango? Oh no, a wild Love Exposure appears!)
Get a little more into the DTC list maybe.

1. Watch all existing silent soviets.
2. get good enough at reading russian to read russian intertitles to be able to watch all existing silent soviets.
3. kevyip, especially the ~100 chinese films I've got piled up from July's challenge that I didn't manage to watch.

1. Get and maintain plat on the 500<400 list.
2. Finish the One hundred film and one country, Italy list.
3. Watch every available movie (with E-subs) from Will Tremper, Elio Petri, Rolf de Heer, Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica, Antonio Pietrangeli and Ladislao Vajda

1. Watch more than half of UNESCO
2. Complete Korean Film Archive & Shaw Bros library
3. Investigate unfamiliar areas, particularly Nollywood
4. Reach top 10 users
5. More from South east Asia.
Not in order. #4 was a goal for this year that I drastically failed to meet. Without two higher ranked users going dark I wouldn’t be in the top 20. That said this is not a priority.

1. Completely clear my Netflix & Amazon queue, and everything on my harddrive just for once
2. Watch more films from the 40s and before that aren't in English, French, German, Russian or Japanese
3. Sit through Les vampires

Need to set some more realistic goals for 2019, didn't even meet my "easy" goals for this year. (1) I turned Satantango off when they actually filmed one of the actors torturing a cat for real. (2) Was going for Platinum from Gold for Thriller, but they changed the list again recently, and I missed a cinema screening of Sholay due to bad weather.

Have been really bad at scheduled watching, and check following has resulted in the quality of films I'm watching deteriorating.

I need to go to the cinema more in 2019. Will work out some other stuff, most ICM lists not appealing to me at the moment, and having big problems sourcing obscure stuff due to SMz death, CG login expiring, and no KG invite.

2018 was a pretty good year for me overall. I was able to reach a couple of milestones that I've been working towards for a long time, like Bronze on Roger Ebert's Great Movies list and Platinum on the Reddit Top 250. I think 2019 will be another year for many of my long-term film projects to get wrapped up. I'll try to do these things in 2019:

That list is super cool because a) it lists all the official shorts on ICM, and b) a lot of the shorter ones are really early cinema, which was fascinating to me when I joined ICM (still is) because I had seen almost nothing that old.

That list is super cool because a) it lists all the official shorts on ICM, and b) a lot of the shorter ones are really early cinema, which was fascinating to me when I joined ICM (still is) because I had seen almost nothing that old.

Good point and good list.
My goal is to get 27 awards (currently on 14 but had 17 last update)
But most importantly I am going to discover more films. I don't really focus on completing lists. I just watch movies who are on a few official lists and work my way up.

I think we're the only ones trying to watch less movies I've actually been doing that sucessfully and this year I will end with more or less 200 new films checked. It's a record for me since I registered in ICM 7 years ago. Stop caring about maintaining platinums or pursuing new bronzes/platinums helped among others things

So for 2019..

1. Watch/check less or the same amount of new movies and only the ones I really want to see.

2. Try to rewatch more, especially childhood favorites to see if they still hold up. It's a bittersweet task actually, some of them haven't aged well!

I think we're the only ones trying to watch less movies I've actually been doing that sucessfully and this year I will end with more or less 200 new films checked. It's a record for me since I registered in ICM 7 years ago. Stop caring about maintaining platinums or pursuing new bronzes/platinums helped among others things

I think i'll end up around 900 so failed miserably indeed , i'm aiming for 400-500 for 2019, but more importantly i'm aiming to get a job and finish college , 200 is too low, don't think i could do it

I was hoping I'd be able to take on a goal of reaching the top 200 on every official list in 2019, but I've just crunched the numbers and it looks like I would need 141 official checks to do that, which is more than I've ever attempted in a previous challenge. In 2018, for example, I started the year needing 74 checks and it wound up taking the entire year to complete (I'll be doing what I think will be my last check tomorrow). Getting to top 225 on every official list doesn't have the satisfying round number attached to it that 200 does, but I'd only need 50 to achieve it, and since I suspect 2019 will be a busy year for me, I think I should stick to that humbler goal. I may change my mind at midyear if I think I can manage it.

I was hoping I'd be able to take on a goal of reaching the top 200 on every official list in 2019, but I've just crunched the numbers and it looks like I would need 141 official checks to do that, which is more than I've ever attempted in a previous challenge. In 2018, for example, I started the year needing 74 checks and it wound up taking the entire year to complete (I'll be doing what I think will be my last check tomorrow). Getting to top 225 on every official list doesn't have the satisfying round number attached to it that 200 does, but I'd only need 50 to achieve it, and since I suspect 2019 will be a busy year for me, I think I should stick to that humbler goal. I may change my mind at midyear if I think I can manage it.

I need about 424 checks to get in the top 500 of every list 175 of those are just from the All-Time Worldwide Box Office list so I think it's going to take me a few years...

"I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want." - Stanley Kubrick

MoMA in New York has a print of The Art of Vision. Canyon Cinema in San Francisco has a print as well. Just found out that the University of Colorado Boulder has one (he worked there and they named the film center after him), in their "Norlin Archive". It may not be available to the public (i.e. for preservation only).